Exploring Modern Ruins

Urban adventurers are exploring forbidden buildings, abandoned subway tunnels, and other forgotten modern ruins, and using the Internet to chronicle their written and photographic records of historical places about to be lost forever.

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January 17, 2001, 6:00 AM PST

By Abhijeet Chavan @http://twitter.com/legalaidtech

"The destinations are often doomed buildingson the brink of being demolished; manyinfiltrators feel driven to make a written orphotographic record of historical places thatwill soon be lost forever... The infiltrators are not preservationists, however; rather, they are observers and chroniclers."

Thanks to Abhijeet Chavan

Read the full story: Online and underground

Tuesday, January 16, 2001 in Salon

History / Preservation United States

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